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22The relationship between critical theory and psychoanalysis has a long and interesting history. The first generation of Frankfurt School philosophers, particularly figures such as Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, embraced psychoanalysis in order to explain why, given seemingly propitious historical circumstances, 'the masses' opted for fascism rather than communism during the 1930s. Following the rise of Nazism and the horrors of Auschwitz, Freudian psychoanalytic theory once again proved imp…Read more
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11Terrence Malick’s The New World is a poetic evocation of one of America’s founding myths, the story of Pocahontas. While the film allegorises - through the theme of marriage - the possibility of successful cultural exchange and of reconciliation with nature, it also fuses mythic history, subjective reflection, and the self-expression of nature. This unstable point of view has led to a critical ambivalence concerning the film’s romantic naivety: its evocation of ideologically suspect myths or his…Read more
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10A review of Andrew Haas’ "Hegel and the Problem of Multiplicity", Northwestern University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-810-11670-7 ; 0-810-11669-3.
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18Book review : 'Filmosophy' (review)A book review of Daniel Frampton's 'Filmosophy', 2006. London: Wallflower, ISBN 1904764843.
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19Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience Through FilmRoutledge. 2015.How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas? What role does our emotional involvement play in this process? What makes the aesthetic power of cinema ethically significant? Cinematic Ethics: _Exploring Ethical Experience through Film_ addresses these questions by examining the idea of cinema as a medium of ethical experience with the power to provoke emotional understanding and philosophical thinking. In a clear and engaging style, Robert Sinnerbrink examines the key philosophical approaches to…Read more
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26Understanding HegelianismRoutledge. 2007.Understanding Hegelianism explores the ways in which Hegelian and anti-Hegelian currents of thought have shaped some of the most significant movements in twentieth-century European philosophy, particularly the traditions of critical theory, existentialism, Marxism, and poststructuralism. Robert Sinnerbrink begins with an examination of Kierkegaard's existentialism and Marx's materialism. He looks at the contrasting critiques of Hegel by Lukacs and Heidegger as well as the role of Hegelian themes…Read more
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14Recognition or Decentred Agency? Philosophical Culture and its Discontents (Jurist, Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency)Cosmos and History 3 (2-3): 389-395. 2007.
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29Sein und Geist: Heidegger's Confrontation with Hegel's PhenomenologyCosmos and History 3 (2-3): 132-152. 2007.This paper pursues the lsquo;thinking dialoguersquo; between Hegel and Heidegger, a dialogue centred on Heideggerrsquo;s lsquo;confrontationrsquo; with Hegelrsquo;s Phenomenology of Spirit. To this end, I examine Heideggerrsquo;s critique of Hegel on the relationship between time and Spirit; Heideggerrsquo;s interpretation of the Phenomenology as exemplifying the Cartesian-Fichtean metaphysics of the subject; and Heideggerrsquo;s later reflections on Hegel as articulating the modern metaphysics …Read more
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73Irving Singer (2008) Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in FilmFilm-Philosophy 14 (1): 377-386. 2010.
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4Neo-Anarchism or Neo-Liberalism? Yes, Please! A Response to Simon Critchley's Infinitely DemandingCritical Horizons 10 (2): 163-179. 2009.Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding makes a timely contribution to contemporary debates in ethics and political philosophy. For all its originality, however, one can raise critical questions concerning Critchley's account of the forms of resistance possible within liberal democratic polities. In this article I question the adequacy of Critchley's ethically based neo-anarchism as a response to neo-liberalism, critically analysing the role of ideology in his account of the motivational deficit …Read more
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14Hugo MiinsterbergIn Felicity Colman (ed.), Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, Acumen Publishing. pp. 20-30. 2009.Film, Theory and Philosophy brings together leading scholars to provide a detailed overview of the key thinkers who have shaped the field of film philosophy. The thinkers include continental philosophers, post-continental philosophers, analytic philosophers, film-makers, film reviewers, sociologists, and cultural theorists. The essays reveal how philosophy can be applied to film analysis and how film can be used to illustrate philosophical problems. But more importantly, the essays explore how f…Read more
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31This essay presents a critical interpretation of Derrida’s deconstructive reading of Walter Benjamin’s text, "Critique of Violence." It examines the relationship between deconstruction and justice, and the parallel Derrida draws between deconstructive reading and Benjamin’s account of pure violence. I argue that Derrida blurs Benjamin’s distinction between the political general strike and the proletarian general strike. As a consequence, Derrida criticises Benjamin’s metaphysical complicity with…Read more
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2The Volcano and the dream: Consequences of RomanticismIn P. D. Bubbio & P. Redding (eds.), Religion After Kant: God and Culture in the Idealist Era, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2012.
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93Cinematic Ideas, on David Lynch's Mulholland DriveFilm-Philosophy 9 (4). 2005.he enigmatic films of David Lynch have been interpreted from a variety of perspectives. Among these we can find Lynch the postmodernist ironist, Lynch the transgressive neoconservative, and Lynch the visionary explorer of the unconscious. Martha P. Nochimson's recent study, for example, presents an eloquent case for regarding Lynch as a Jungian 'surfer of the waves of the collective unconscious', whose films combine the intuitive embracing of subconscious Life Energy with a celebration of the cr…Read more
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17Bloodsworth‐Lugo, Mary K. and Dan Flory, eds. Race, Philosophy, and Film. New York: Routledge, 2013, xiii + 235 pp., 8 b&w illus., $125.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (3): 340-342. 2014.
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30Nikolas Kompridis, Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and FutureCritical Horizons 8 (2): 266-271. 2007.
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63Critical Theory As Disclosing Critique: A Response to KompridisConstellations 19 (3): 369-381. 2012.What Kompridis admirably describes as the transformative power of disclosing critique should be incorporated into a renewed model of critical theory. At the same time, disclosing critique should be regarded as supplementing, rather than supplanting, those normative forms of analysis and reflection that remain rooted in experiences of social suffering, which are precisely what continue to give critical theory its normative ground and theoretical impetus. In this way, we could agree with Kompridis…Read more
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50The future of critical theory? Kompridis on world-disclosing critiquePhilosophy and Social Criticism 37 (9): 1053-1061. 2011.Nikolas Kompridis has recently argued that the future of critical theory depends upon a critical appropriation of Heidegger’s concept of ‘world disclosure’, and hence on a transformation of critical theory into a form of ‘world-disclosing critique’ oriented towards the future. This article engages in a critical dialogue with Kompridis' account of world-disclosing critique, arguing that critical theory should embrace it as an innovative way of retrieving the forgotten tradition of aesthetic criti…Read more
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116Cinema and Its Shadow: Mario Perniola (2004) Art and Its ShadowFilm-Philosophy 10 (2): 31-38. 2006.Book review of Mario Perniola, 'Art and Its Shadow', translated by Massimo Verdicchio with a foreword by Hugh J. Silverman, London and New York: Continuum Press, ISBN: 082626243X
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105Recognitive freedom: Hegel and the problem of recognitionCritical Horizons 5 (1): 271-295. 2004.This paper examines the theme of recognition in Hegel's account of self-consciousness, suggesting that there are unresolved difficulties with the relationship between the normative sense of mutual recognition and phenomenological cases of unequal recognition. Recent readings of Hegel deal with this problem by positing an implicit distinction between an 'ontological' sense of recognition as a precondition for autonomous subjectivity, and a 'normative' sense of recognition as embodied in rational …Read more
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23Neo-Anarchism or Neo-Liberalism? Yes, Please! A Response to Simon Critchley's Infinitely DemandingCritical Horizons 10 (2): 163-179. 2009.Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding makes a timely contribution to contemporary debates in ethics and political philosophy. For all its originality, however, one can raise critical questions concerning Critchley's account of the forms of resistance possible within liberal democratic polities. In this article I question the adequacy of Critchley's ethically based neo-anarchism as a response to neo-liberalism, critically analysing the role of ideology in his account of the motivational deficit …Read more
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15Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory (edited book)Brill. 2007.Recognition, Work, Politics includes a range of essays in contemporary French critical theory around politics, recognition, and work, and their philosophical articulations. These issues are addressed from directions that include post-structuralism, the paradigm of the gift, recognition theory, and post-marxism
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41Introduction: Film and / as EthicsSubstance 45 (3): 3-15. 2016.The relationship between film and philosophy, along with the idea of film as philosophy, has attracted widespread interest over the last decade. Film theorists and philosophers of film have explored not only the philosophical questions raised by cinema as an artform, but also the possibility that cinema might contribute to philosophical understanding or even engage in varieties of “cinematic thinking” that intersect with, without being reducible to, philosophical inquiry. Inspired by the work of…Read more
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Continental Philosophy |
European Philosophy |